Gun-wad



(No ModeL) G. CLAPP.

GUN WAD.

No. 396,986. Pate-ntedJaIl. 29, 1889.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.'

GEORGE CLAPP, OF PHILADELPHIA, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO THOMAS D. ABRAHAM, OF UPPER MERSON, PENNSYLVANIA.

GUNEWAD.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 396,986, dated January 29, 1889.

Application filed June 14, 1888. Serial No. 277,093. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Beit known that I, GEORGE CLAPP, a citizen of the United States, residing in the city and county of Philadelphia, State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and useful Improvenient in Gun-'vads, which improvement is fully set forth in the following specification and accompanying' drawing.

My invention consists in forming a gun- Wad of paper or other pulp and bristles, Whereby the same is of superior nature and serves to scour the gun-barrel in its passage or exit through the same.

The figure represents a side elevation of a gun-Wad embodying my invention.

In carrying out my invention I combine paper or other pulp and bristles, and form a Web 0r sheet of the same, from Which WebIpunch out disks or pieces of the shape of gun-Wads.

It will be seen that the Wads may be quickly, uniformly, and cheaply produced, and that they are comparatively solidi or dense, so as to snugly tit the gun-barrel, and their peripheries present bent edges of hair or brist1es,which serve to scour said barrel in their exit, thus keeping the barrel in a cleanly con dition.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

A gun-Wad consisting of a composition of paper-pulp and bristles, substantially as described.

GEORGE CLAPP.

Witnesses:

JOHN A. WIEDEEsHEIM, A. P. JENNINGs. 

